Board Thread:DMC5 Spoilers/@comment-3087260-20190313013300/@comment-6769189-20190315230713

Vergil was retconned but as of 5 it is unclear if he was considered dead. In DMC5's History of DMC it was never said that he was dead and it reveals that some of the Angelo armors need a host. The explosion could have been the armor rupturing and seperating itself from Vergil and him escaping.